podcast

Data-Enabled Utilities: Helping Things Flow.

When it comes to wastewater management, utility managers are discovering that deploying a data-driven approach to their operations is helping them to realize cost and resource efficiencies and to avoid emerging problems like never before. This keeps things flowing, which is music to the ears of customers, plant operators and people concerned about offsetting potentially damaging environmental incidents.

On this episode of If/When our guests are Jacobs Senior Associate Director Simon Gaskell and Network Business Manager of United Utilities Samantha Sloan.

ABOUT OUR GUESTS

Simon Gaskell

Jacobs

Senior Associate Director

Jacobs Senior Associate Director, Simon Gaskell, is a dedicated change manager with a career focused on operational transformation in various industries. He is passionate about introducing new ways of working through client adoption of innovative technologies. Currently serving as the Delivery Lead for Jacobs' Aqua DNA platform, Simon combines client needs for advanced digital water network management with emerging IoT technologies and Jacobs' domain expertise. With a background in the British Army and extensive experience in lean and agile methodologies, design-led thinking, innovation, and digital transformation, Simon is at the forefront of digitally enabled transformation within water client businesses.

Samantha Sloan

United Utilities

Network Business Manager

Samantha Sloan is a Network Business Manager at United Utilities, a water and wastewater services provider to around seven million people in the North West of England supplying 3 million households and 200,000 business premises. Samantha has held a variety of roles at United Utilities since 2015. She received her Bachelor degree in Mathematics from the University of Manchester, and her Master of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from Swansea University.